No trend... Some got rich and famous at the same time...
Adding to the list...
1) Bill Joy (Creator of C shell, PhD Berkeley now VP at Sun)
2) Bjarn Stroustrup (Inventor of C++ PhD Cambridge at AT&T)
3) Bhatia (Creator of Hotmail MSCS Stanford got $400M from Microsoft)
4) Jerry Yang (Creator of Yahoo! MSCS Stanford, no need to ask for his
net worth)
5) I know Google was from two MSCS students of Stanford
6) Andrew Tridgell (Creator of Samba, my fellow PhD student here
at the Australian National Univ. now with linuxcare.com.au. Though not
rich yet, he gets FREE PIZZA everyday)
-rowel
> >
> > For Gates, well ppl love to throw pies on his face and for Ellison he may
> > end crashing with his MIG. They are the cause of our bad trips!
> > --
>
> Hmm, it seems the College Dropouts (Gates, Ellison, et al) make all the
> money, but those with postgraduate degrees (Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie,
> Torvalds) end up creating something useful for the whole world (UNIX, C,
> Linux) and give it away for free. Is there a trend here?
>
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